“This focus on people has persisted over the decades.”
Whether it’s Steve Jobs or the new coach who’s turning the entire soccer team around: leadership success is often attributed to individual personalities. But what if that is precisely one of the most persistent misconceptions in leadership research? Who actually bears the responsibility when leadership is understood not as a character trait but as a function?
“We assume that leadership is something that is needed in organizations as a function.”
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wimmer is one of the most influential pioneers of systemic organizational consulting in the German-speaking world. As a senior partner at osb international and a long-time professor at the Witten Institute for Family Businesses (WIFU), he combines academic depth with decades of consulting experience. In a conversation with Georgiy Michailov, he explains why leadership is a function and not a matter of personality, and why complexity cannot be eliminated but only managed.
*Video only in German
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